Toupée II

So there's this guy who works in our building, a fellow in his 30's, who wears the most absurd toupée in the universe...this is what got me thinking about the toupée issue. It's just like, I wonder what the is dude THINKING!!!! Be BALD, man! Nothing wrong with that! Or wear a hat if you must! But he looks like, I mean, beyond surreal. Something out of a Fellini film. Like someone masquerading as a person.

Or maybe it's just making fun of people who have hair. Maybe it's an ironic statement about hair, made all the more twisted by the fact that actually, underneath the rug, he does have a full head of hair, and it's a sort of irony on irony, like people who shave off their eyebrows and paint them back on. There is something of a burlesque about it, something like kabuki or noh theatre. Perhaps, yes, it's the cranial equivalent of a mask. You know, how other-worldly and spooky masks really are, as if suddenly you're in the realm of magic, of pure allegory, removed from the measured, analog reality of everyday life and thrown into some classical Greek drama staged and acted with the stark severity of an ancient and completely alien ethos.